Beth Brelje - Writer, The Federalist Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Or maybe we'll just send them to prison. Five fifty
two is our time here in Houston's Warning News. Three
Pennsylvania officials, all Democrats, used fake names, fake ballads, and
even had some friends and family registered vote and they
still lost the election. And I guess worse yet for them,
they got caught. Joining us to talk about it is
Beth Brellia, writer at the Federalist. I guess let's start

(00:23):
with this, Beth. How did they get caught.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Well, the Department of Justice, the FBI investigated. I'm not
sure who turned them in or how that played out,
but we know that they stole some identity. They did
have some friends cheap for them, and they also had
some stolen identities. Like one of the gentlemen had a

(00:48):
business and he took the names of some of his customers.
What they did is they took people from out of
town and electronically registered to vote. And you know, and
so they did everything online and through the mail, which
is one of the election integrity problems. The election integrity

(01:09):
advocates want everything done in person with a photo ID,
so this kind of thing can't happen. So they but
they stole identities and changed their addresses to their town
and then requested mail in ballots and fraudulently voted and
dropped them off at the county. Wow, so simple that

(01:30):
they broke so many rules. There's so many rules that
need to be fixed.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Well, in the case is always made by Democrats. We
don't need voter ID, we don't need to change the rules,
we don't need to have any of this because cheating
doesn't happen. Well, here's the proof. But they're going to say, well,
this is a rare occurrence and we're only talking about
a local election. They'll make all kinds of excuses. But
at the end of the day, you have to be
able to identify yourself who you are before you kiss

(01:56):
your ballot, don't you.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
It's really very very simple, and we did it for
many years. In person voting, it was the rare exception.
You had to have a reason for voting absentee unless
you were overseas, which is a whole other can of
worms to open at some point. You know a couple
interesting things about this case. This is a town of

(02:20):
thirteen hundred people, so people think in their little hometown,
oh this you know that happens in the big city.
That doesn't happen here thirteen hundred people. The guy lost
by thirty votes, you know, even with cheating. So if
one hundred percent of the people in town voted, you
know that it's just a handful of people. It doesn't

(02:42):
take much to move an election.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Absolutely, but by yeah, I was going to say, but
by the same token. On a national level, it's very
easy to move around millions of votes without being detected
because because of the huge number of people who are voting.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yeah, the problems in this little burrow of thirteen hundred
people in Pennsylvania, same problems across the country.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Vote.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
We need voter ID, we need voting in person, we
need same day voting. When you register to vote, you
should show your ID there, right, and then when you vote,
you should show your ID. These are not hard things.
If you can't be if people died for this country,
and if you can't be bothered to get an identification,

(03:29):
you may not be intelligent enough to vote in the
election anyway.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Unfortunately, there's no intelligence clause. If there were, we would
have revoted that a long time ago.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
It's so true. I want to tell you one of
the important thing about his case. One of the guys
that's going to prison, pled guilty, convicted, go into jail
still in office. Two at the time when they pled guilty,
two were in office. One finally decided to step down.

(04:00):
But the what an ego right like this, this borough
council job in this little town is so important that
even you're going to put one of them to go
to prison for three years, one for two years, one
for one year. That's that's a lot of prison time
for thirty votes, right, yea it is.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
I doubt if anybody learned their lesson from this though. Unfortunately, Beth,
thanks for joining us this morning. I get to talk
to you. Appreciate it. Breth Brella, she's a writer at
The Federalist. It's five fifty six